Corruption and Innovation: A Grease or Sand relationship?
- Autor
- Erschienen
- 2008-03-14
- Schlagwort(e)
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Corruption
Developing Economies
marketing Innovation
Organisational Innovation
Process Innovation
Product Innovation
Taxation
- Zusammenfsg.
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This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it facilitates marketing innovation.
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2008-017
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; O14 - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; H25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies
